Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy and Clark are not the only men in Congress willing to fight to have the loyalty affidavit removed from the NDEA. But they need help from the colleges and universities that are directly affected by the Act. They need help to answer such charges as "Hundreds of colleges, including Harvard, have accepted the NDEA," and "Not one student has written in to protest the loyalty oath...
They, like the rest of a small but dedicated group of economists, believe that the gold standard is the only answer to the world's present monetary problems, such as inflation and a concentration of capital. They believe that a return to the rigid fiscal discipline of the gold standard would act as a brake on inflation by preventing governments from overspending, head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help...
...catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven are not to be found by following a regular schedule, he is always ready to swerve off course to answer the invitational glances of a lady or to chase a taxi containing his true love along a seacliff highway...
...real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...
...ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above all else. When her first daughter, a premature baby, died, she noted in her diary: "Find my baby dead. Send for Hogg. Talk. A miserable day. In the evening read...